Hold On · Gojira

182 bars of 4/4 at 128 BPM, about 5:41 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Progressive120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
128 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
182
LENGTH
5:41
DIFFICULTY
53/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 29% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 63-65, 67-69 and 71-73, and 17 more places -- 29.2% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 128 BPM
HOLD ON · BAR 63
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 82, 86, 98, 102, 106, 114 and 11 more.

LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 82 · LANDS ON BAR 83
LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 86 · LANDS ON BAR 87 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 102 · LANDS ON BAR 103 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 114 · LANDS ON BAR 115

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

182 bars across 13 sections: 92 keep time, 17 are fills, 41 are stops and 21 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 11-44.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART S4
PART F
PART J
PART I
PART T
PART AE
OUTRO 2
11 groovesCTJFS4+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Hold On?

128 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is Hold On hard to play on drums?

53 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

182 bars, about 5:41 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 51 exercises over 14 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Hold On?

11 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 82, 86, 98, 102, 106, 114 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 182 BARS ANALYSED
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